RingCentral

RingCentral

Lead Systems & Data Architect

Belmont, California · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsSQLSnowflakeDatabricksVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsRAGLLMOps

About the role

  • It's not every day that you consider starting a new career.
  • We're RingCentral, and we're happy that someone as talented as you is considering this role.
  • RingSense AI is our proprietary AI solution.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own a cloud-native, enterprise-scale data architecture that supports batch, streaming, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
  • Develop and execute a multi-year data platform modernization roadmap, balancing delivery speed, risk, cost efficiency, and business continuity.
  • Drive architectural decisions across Snowflake, Databricks, and cloud-native services, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
  • Partner closely with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, security, and data science teams to design scalable ingestion, transformation, and serving layers.
  • Optimize performance and cost efficiency across Snowflake and Databricks environments, including workload isolation, query optimization, and storage strategies.
  • Lead the adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., Terraform) for data platforms.
  • Define patterns for environment management, observability, disaster recovery, and security-by-design.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and complex migration programs.
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  • This is your chance to help imagine, develop and deliver products that raise the technological bar, and power human connections.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or platform engineering roles.
  • Proven success leading large-scale data platform migrations, including:
  • Deep hands-on expertise with SQL, Spark, and Python, and strong understanding of distributed data processing.
  • Experience with real-time and streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt).
  • Design the data foundation required for advanced analytics, ML, and LLM workloads, including feature stores, vector storage, and real-time data access.

Nice to have

  • Snowflake, Databricks, or cloud provider certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Experience with multi-petabyte-scale data platforms.
  • Familiarity with data mesh, lakehouse, and domain-oriented data product concepts.
  • Exposure to LLM pipelines, vector databases, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures.

Compensation

  • First, a little about us, we're a $2 Billion annual revenue company with double digit Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and a $93 Billion market opportunity in UCaaS, Contact Center and AI-powered adjacencies.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSAs) and Commuter benefits
  • Voluntary supplemental health coverage and life insurance
  • Paid time off and paid sick leave
  • Paid parental and pregnancy leave
  • Family-forming benefits (IVF, Preservation, Adoption etc.)
  • Employee bonus referral program
  • Employee 1:1 coaching, perks and discounts program
  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Company info

  • we are recognized as a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, the Top Work Culture by Comparably and hold local BPTW awards in every major location.
  • Bottom line: We are committed to hiring and retaining great people because we know you power our success.
  • And don't just take our word for it: we are recognized as a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, the Top Work Culture by Comparably and hold local BPTW awards in every major location.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during our application and interview process.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer that truly values diversity.

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